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Legitimately, one of the hardest parts about being Neil Young<\/a> must be choosing what songs to play on tour. <\/p>\n Granted, that is a sign that the cantankerous Canuck has it pretty sweet these days, but still, can you imagine the headaches? Do you dig out the Les Paul and shred away on Ditch Trio jams? Do you electrify the fans by picking from Harvest and Tonight\u2019s The Night? Do you expand some minds with some of your more recent work? Perhaps you make some die-hard Neil Young crate-diggers\u2019 entire lives by throwing in some rarities that they never in a million years thought they\u2019d hear? <\/p>\n At the very least, you can be sure that one thing makes the process of picking from one of the best back catalogues in rock a little easier. The fact that Young himself will make absolutely no concessions to what other people might want to hear in picking his setlists. The man will play whatever he damn well pleases. Perhaps it helps to know that a large portion of his fanbase loves him for this fact but if they didn\u2019t, it would bother him as much as anyone else on this planet\u2019s opinion does. Which is to say, it wouldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n Thus, there\u2019s something quite heart-warming about the recent spate of beloved Neil Young classics coming back into his setlists. After The Gold Rush\u2018s utterly magical \u2018Only Love Can Break Your Heart<\/a>\u2018 worked its way into his recent tour with the Chrome Hearts and one can be absolutely certain that wasn\u2019t there because some suit pressured him into it. It\u2019s there because Young seems more comfortable with his back catalogue than ever and another recently surfaced masterpiece seems to prove this fact. <\/p>\n What made Neil Young start playing \u2018Ambulance Blues\u2019 again? <\/p>\n On July 1st, Young and the Chrome Hearts took to the stage in Gr\u00f6ningen, Netherlands, as part of the Summerstage Festival. In lieu of any real introduction, Young growled, \u201cI haven\u2019t played this in, like, 100 years, we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d <\/p>\n Then, amid gasps from his assembled fans, eased the Chrome Hearts into On The Beach\u2018s nine-minute-long closing track \u2018Ambulance Blues\u2019, one of his most beloved songs from arguably the most beloved era of his career. <\/p>\n